Nika's Humble Garden 2008 garden
Created on Sunday, 30 Mar 08
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Zone 8b My first vegetable garden is sited in the backyard on the south side of the house, under the master bedroom windows. In its first incarnation, it was comprised of four 2x8' rai...
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Zone 5b
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Zone 8b I also have a vegetable garden along the entire length of the fence at the back of the backyard. It's a 2' wide strip, about 30' long. Both of my vegetable gardens are a mixtu...
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Zone 11 Oval steel tank (like a rainwater tank) layered with straw, paper, compost, manure, etc to make a no-dig garden bed. Plonked it on top of the lawn, since we hardly use the lawn ...
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Zone 10
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Zone 9a
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My little vege patch, planning on a big spring and summer crop of tomatoes, egg plants and basil. Also what ever flowers take my fancy, possibly sunflowers.
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Zone 10b
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Zone 10 Well, I've been collecting materials for the last week or so. Second hand timber for the edges. Stable sweepings from a secret source, woodshavings from another secret source. M...
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Zone 10 Farthest from the back door, I should put in things that I only harvest once here..... At the moment, potatoes, garlic, broccoli, silverbeet, tatsoi, lettuces, herbs.
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Zone 8 10 by 4 raised bed. Dug out to 18 inches then filled with peat, compost, sand and top soil.
Mainly fertilized by worm casting tea and compost tea.
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Zone 7a
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Zone 7a We got this idea from _Organic Gardening_ magazine...we don't have a lot of space for tomatoes to sprawl all over, but we didn't want to use cages or only buy determinates. We u...
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Zone 7a This is the first garden we started when we moved here last summer. All it is is a 4' x 8' raised bed. I've also been trying to grow potatoes in an old cleaned-out trash can--th...
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The possums kept eating my seedlings. I tried everything - quassia chips, chilli spray and chicken wire. The only thing to work - bird netting! So far so good!
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Zone 5 Vegetable Bed 1 - 2008
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Zone 3a My husband and I decided to create a salad garden for our backyard. We plant mixed lettuce, spinach, radish, peas, dill, scarlet runner beans, onions, and in a separate large c...
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Zone 8 With the price of food rising, along with gas, and the need to prove to ourselves that we could do it, my husband and I planted a garden full of a few of the things we love to e...
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Zone 8b
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Zone 5 My primary vegetable garden. The Wagon Wheel is a half circle 20 feet in diameter. When I first put it in it was in full sun all day and had 7 spokes where I planted tomatoes,...
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Zone 7
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Zone 5b I moved to Missouri from Indiana in November of last year. While I lived in Indiana, although I tried and tried to grow many different things, I failed. The biggest problem wa...
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Zone 8
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Zone 9 I named it the Moon Garden when we first moved hear because of the beautiful way the full moon reflected off of a olive tree at the upper edge of the garden. I is one of the hot...
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Zone 7 I built this garden on June 16, 2008. It is 60% composted horse/mule manure, 40% native soil dug up and remixed.
Over the top are hoops for PVC pipes that make it look like ...
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Zone 8 We've shared this garden with our friends, now going on it's third year. We like to experiment with different techniques, but overall it's fun with the combined families, totali...
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Zone 6a This is the patch abandoned when the previous owner died. This spring, Dominick helped clear the old beds of leaves, weeds and ivy, and Deion took ownership of the plantings. He...
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Zone 5a
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Zone 5b Garden is 90 feet by 150 feet Starting on the east side I have 6 rows of sweet corn, 1 row of popcorn, 1 row that has zucchini, acorn sqash, cantalope and watermelon, 1 row of ...
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